Druide Healing Guide Tips

• Don’t kill your mana! Try to use Healing Touch as much as possible, it will help you saving your mana instead of just spamming Regrowths. It’s very important to keep in mind how long it takes, if you use it in the wrong situation whoever you are tanking might die, so choose wisely which one fits best for the situation, Healing Touch or Regrowth. With practice, you might be able to use Healing Touch faster, by knowing in advance where it fits best.
• Friends we are. You are part of a team, always keep in mind that. You need to work as one with all other healing classes. For example, lets say that you are in a party that has the main tank, and along it’s a priest. Throw Rejuvenations and Regrowths, because the priest should also be focusing on him. No point spamming heals if you know that the person will be healed. Now, if you think that someone is going to die, do your best to keep that person alive.
• Down! I’m down! A dead healer might end up in a dead raid. It’s very important to keep yourself alive. It’s also important to keep the Main Tanks alive, tho, at least on Raid Instances, if the Main Tank dies, most of the times it ends up in a wipe.
• Brutality! Combos are pretty nice, for example, Healing Touch and a Rejuvenation, Regrowth and Rejuvenation or even maybe a Rejuvenation and then Swiftmend.
• Woah! Innervate regens faster on a Priest than on a Druid, because of how Spirit works on them compared to a Druid. Now, I’m not saying you can’t use Innervate on yourself, but you also have to keep in mind that it can be used on other people.
• The time is ticking. If you are going to use a Potion, use it almost at the beginning of the fight, or at least as soon as possible, but don’t waste it. This is because the cooldown might be up during the fight and it will let you use another potion. If you wait too long to use it, you won’t have another chance to pop another.
• Do you hear me? Use macros to announce who you are Innervating (if you have it), Battle Rezzing and maybe Hibernating people. I would recommend using a macro that I found somewhere in WoW Forums, I call it Smart Macro, because it checks if you are solo, in a party or in a raid, and depending on these factors, it announces on the best channel. For example, if you are solo, it won’t announce, but if you are in a raid, it will go to the raid./cast Spell(Rank #);
/script s=”MESSAGE GOES HERE”;a=0;if GetPartyMember(1) then c=”party” a=1 if GetNumRaidMembers()>0 then c=”raid” end;end;if a>0 then SendChatMessage(s,c) end;

  examples

  /cast Innervate();
/script s=”%t has been innervated”;a=0;if GetPartyMember(1) then c=”party” a=1 if GetNumRaidMembers()>0 then c=”raid” end;end;if a>0 then SendChatMessage(s,c) end;

  /script s=”Hibernating %t.”;a=0;if GetPartyMember(1) then c=”party” a=1 if GetNumRaidMembers()>0 then c=”raid” end;end;if a>0 then SendChatMessage(s,c) end;
/cast Hibernate(Rank 3)

  %t stands for the target you are selecting.

• I see dead people. It’s impossible on some situations to keep everyone alive, and maybe someone in your party, or even in your raid, will die. You made your best, and that’s what matters. I usually feel bad and try to apologize when someone dies, but sometimes there are priorities, and you have to decide. Still, if you know you are doing your best, it doesn’t mean that you are going to let anyone make you feel bad or anything like that. We are all humans, and we all make mistakes. As some people may say, @(#^ happens.
• Salvation. It’s very important to have Blessing of Salvation, if you are an Alliance druid.
• Swiftmend! With the patch 1.11, Swiftmend was introduced in the Restoration tree, as a 31pt talent. In my very very own opinion, swiftmend is one of the best spells ever, with a 15 second cooldown, it’s really an awesome spell. How I use it is, depending in the situation, if I need a fast good heal, I throw a Rejuvenation and then swiftmend, so I don’t use my Nature’s Swiftness. With my current healing gear (+749 Healing Power), swiftmend can heal for 1.7k, and it can crit for around 2.5k, which is sweet. Another option of a bigger heal would be throwing Regrowth and then swiftmend. Obviously you can also just throw rejuvenations at people and then use it when it’s about to run out.